– Via NewsBusters, it’s come to this: Ed Schultz says he will be “cheer-leading” for the Occupy Wall Street movement every night on the air. I’m not sure even the Left can handle Ed Schultz in a cheer-leading uniform every night. Come on, Ed, we could understand every once in a while on a weekend, maybe, especially if you’ve had a few too many, but every night?

Media provocateur and investigator Andrew Breitbart reveals that high-profile journalists such as MSNBC‘s Dylan Ratiganand Rolling Stone‘s Matt Taibbi are helping the organization craft its public image.Mr. Breitbart has published a confidential email list of these generous journalists at BigJournalism.com; the list itself was provided by a private researcher. In a rebuttal, the aforementioned Mr. Taibbi called Mr. Breitbart a “notorious right wing cybergoon” but dismissed the relevance or importance of the leaked material.

“How long are we going to pretend that this is a ‘grassroots’ uprising?” counters Dana Loesch, editor of the BigJournalism site.

The answer? For a while.

– The Media Primary: How news and blogs view the GOP primary candidates. Ron Paul, does in fact, get the short end of the coverage stick. Mitt Romney’s negatives trump all.

What good is a self-appointed truth squad that appears in a national news segment like this merely to call the top-three GOP candidates “mostly” liars? Oh, and what about one that doesn’t bother to fact-check even a single Democrat?

First of all Pew surveyed what they called 11,500 mainstream media outlets. There may be that many media outlets, but those that are considered mainstream or influential are a fraction of that number.

Second they used an algorithm they developed to determine what constitutes positive, neutral and negative stories using a computer to assess each story. For example, a story on how well Herman Cain is liked was coded a positive and a story about Michele Bachmann’s migraines was coded negative, though neither story discussed specific proposals or policies of the candidates, which would more easily determine the story’s level of fairness.